I finally broke down and started a blog mainly to post pictures for family and friends.

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Bulletin Board: VBS - Colossal Coaster World

I'm a little embarrassed to post this because as I was taking this bulletin board down, I realized that I never actually finished it. This was to advertise our VBS this past summer. I intended to put the Scripture verse and maybe some other related info on the bulletin board, but I had trouble deciding exactly what else to add and then I just completely forgot about it. I was horrified when I realized I had left off the most important part! Well, it did get a lot of attention, so I guess it served the purpose of advertising VBS. (But shame on me!)

The "sky" background was some wrapping paper I found on clearance. The border is a strip of tickets from the Dollar Tree. The fence and gate along the bottom were cut from the Everyday Paper Dolls Cricut cartridge. I added the Colossal Coaster World logo over the gate. I cut the Help Wanted sign using CCR basics and put it on the fence as a subtle hint to fellow church members. ;-) The grass in front of the fence was actually a cattails border from Everyday Paper Dolls. I used the cattails as the flower stems. The flowers were from a small punch. The ticket booth, carousel, ferris wheel, waterslide, and the roller coaster on the left are all from the Carousel cartridge.

The roller coaster on the right is from the Summer Vacation cartridge. I created the coaster cars by combining several shapes together and manipulating them in CCR until I was satisfied it looked like a roller coaster. The reason I added my customized cars was because I was originally going to put photos of some of the church members on the rides, but then I decided they would have been too small to notice (and I just ran out of time and motivation).

The plane ride (bottom left) is also from Summer Vacation.

The lakes and some of the trees were from the Campin' Critters cartridge. The other trees and bushes were cut in various sizes from Everyday Paper Dolls.

Most everything was cut out of poster board since they were so large, and I chose to hand paint them rather than cut layers. It was a lot of work, but it was fun and I was fairly pleased with the overall result.